As I mentioned in the Digital Terrorism blog entry, I remain convince that technological warfare is becoming more common.
War, by nature, is impacted by, and evolves through, technology. As technology advanced, so did the weapons, the defenses and the strategies.
In recent news, there has been a major attack on South Korea's infrastructure (including banks and television stations) and it's widely believed that North Korea is behind the attack.
Unfortunately, this is going to be come increasingly prevalent as a digital attack is significantly cheaper and safer than conventional warfare, let alone that a cyber-attack can be launched regardless of the geographic locations.
I was talking about this concern that I have with my son the other day and the way that I put it to him is that a well throughout cyber-attack - or even a natural disruption of technology - can cripple a society in so many different ways. It can disrupt banking, medical services and records, send the economy into a tailspin, disrupt vital communications and traffic networks. The list goes goes on.
This dependency that we have on technology isn't such a great thing when we have this completed dependency on it with very little manual fail-safe built into it.
War, by nature, is impacted by, and evolves through, technology. As technology advanced, so did the weapons, the defenses and the strategies.
In recent news, there has been a major attack on South Korea's infrastructure (including banks and television stations) and it's widely believed that North Korea is behind the attack.
Unfortunately, this is going to be come increasingly prevalent as a digital attack is significantly cheaper and safer than conventional warfare, let alone that a cyber-attack can be launched regardless of the geographic locations.
I was talking about this concern that I have with my son the other day and the way that I put it to him is that a well throughout cyber-attack - or even a natural disruption of technology - can cripple a society in so many different ways. It can disrupt banking, medical services and records, send the economy into a tailspin, disrupt vital communications and traffic networks. The list goes goes on.
This dependency that we have on technology isn't such a great thing when we have this completed dependency on it with very little manual fail-safe built into it.
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